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I've spoken at over 150 events in 18 countries over the last couple years. This includes big festivals (like Wilderness, Secret Garden Party, Camp Bestival and Shambala), university events (including LSE, Warwick, Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh), think-tanks & institute events (including Open Data Institute, V&A) and international conferences in Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and Ireland. I really enjoy discussing ideas with people, so ping me a message if you want someone to chat on alternative finance, financial activism, and economic hacking. I also know a lot of people in these scenes, so can also recommend other speakers.

25th October: Cambridge Festival of Ideas: Talking on the future of payments systems and the pitfalls of cashless society

22nd October: UEA Healthy Planet divestment debate - panelist

9th October: Digital Experience Collective (Istanbul): Mapping the Frontiers of High Finance: Presenting at the seminary series "Contagious Bodies: Network Politics In The Age of Data-Oriented Worlds". Talking on approaches to exposing the invisible world of money

22nd Sept: Economy of Hours: A beginners guide to the future of money: Talking on money for the great London timebank Economy of Hours

9th Sept: British Science Festival: Living on the planet of the machines(Bradford): I shall be a panelist in the annual Huxley Debate: "There's no denying that robots are already among us - but often they look nothing like Hollywood would lead us to believe. Some of the most powerful are just algorithms or large libraries of code and they underpin our daily lives. Should we be worried about their increasing power and what measures are in place to control them?"

2nd July: Financial Sovereignty @ Tenerife Isla Colaborativa (Canary Islands): I'll be discussing local currencies and their role in local development and economic sovereignty at this collaborative economy getogether

27th-28th June: Rethinking Economics Weekend (London): I'll be speaking on two panels related to rethinking finance. More details to follow...

June 15-16th: Blockchain (R)evolution (London): I'll be moderating a panel on the use of blockchain technology for financial inclusion & remittances. More details to follow

6th June: Enquete Art & Nowa Amerika: Ecological design principles for finance: Nowa Amerika is an experimental nation at Słubfurt on the border of Germany & Poland. I was talking at the participatory Parliament on the topic of ecological design principles for finance

May 18th: Fairfin (Brussels) divestment workshop & evening talk on financial hacking: I'll be hosting an afternoon workshop on fossil fuel divestment with the great Belgian socially responsible finance group Fairfin. Then I do a broader talk on financial activism in the evening

May 15th: Münster: BUKO congress: Transnational finance campaigning: I return to the BUKO congress, the fantastic German conference for radical shitstirrers. I'll be running a workshop on transnational finance campaigning, and how we can strengthen it

May 11th: Geneva: UNRISD workshop on social & solidarity finance: I'll be presenting on alternative finance at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, as part of their programme on social and solidarity finance

April 28th: Zurich: COMPARE Network workshop on alternative currencies: I join the anarchic crew from COMPARE network to explore automation, cooperatives, and complementary currencies, as part of their broader "interdisciplinary explorations of self-organization in practice"

April 25th: Royal Anthropological Institute: Mapping the frontiers of high finance: The workshops will introduce students to research from the flourishing field of financial anthropology, and to the work of contemporary artists who have drawn on anthropological theory and ethnographic methods in order to explore and represent financial techniques, flows and architectures.

March 19th-20th: Goldsmith's Political Economy Research Centre (PERC): Talking at 'REcovery to DIScovery—changing the terms of debate on the economy'. Details to be announced

March 18th 2015: How to Work Together: Sharing economy panel: Details to be announced, but I'm going to be taking part in panel on the sharing economy, what it means, and what it doesn't mean

March 14-15th 2015: Nesta Futurefest: Speaking on a panel entitled 'Blockchain: How Encryption Will Shape The Economics and Politics of The Future', chaired by Jaromil, and featuring Stacy Herbert & Jorge Timon of Blockstream

Feb 5th: V&A Digital Futures - Currency prototyping:I'll be facilitating this fourth and final part of the Digital Futures: Money No Object series of events, a series of discussions and presentations around alternative currencies and their politics by artists, creative technologists and theorists

January 16th: Warwick Debating Union - Should Cryptocurrencies be banned? I join a lineup featuring Nigel Dodd (LSE), Jonathan Levin (Coinometrics), and Nick Lambert, discussing the case for and against banning cryptocurrencies

PAST EVENTS I'VE PARTICIPATED IN: 2014

December 12th: Kings Review presents Bitcoin: The Future of Money: I'll be speaking on Bitcoin at the launch of the new Kings Review Magazine, alongside Prof. Nigel Dodd of London School of Economics, Izabella Kaminska of the Financial Times, and Paul Gilbert of the University of Sussex

December 8th: Coinscrum - Bitcoin, the year in review: Talking alongside Vinay Gupta, Peter Todd & Gavin Wood of Ethereum, reviewing the year in cryptocurrency

December 2nd: Permaculture Picturehouse: Alternative currencies: I'm going to be talking on the topic of alternative and complementary currencies, alongside Leander Bindewald of the New Economics Foundation. More details to follow

November 11th: World Congress of Accountants 2014 (Rome): I'll be speaking on a panel called New Horizons for Accountancy, alongside participants in AuditFutures, a programme of ICAEW run in collaboration with the Finance Innovation Lab.

Compare Network International Symposium, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Presented on alternative currency at Compare Network international symposium on Sharing Experiences of Self-Organisation

Oct 7th: V&A Digital Futures Money No Object panel discussion: This session marks the conclusion of Heidi Hinder’s practice-based research project at the V&A, Money No Object, exploring the impact of technology on future currency and transactions.

Sept 25th-28th: The Art of Being Many (Hamburg): I'll be collaborating in this collective festival of artists, activists and researchers, delving into obscure topics like materiality, vogue and voodoo, blockade and panic, and real democracy

Sept 16th: London Design Festival: The Future of Money: Organised by design house Method and chaired by Philip O'Dwyer. I'll be on a panel talking about, you know, the future of money

August 15th & 16th: Green Jazdów festival (Poland): Holiday Economics: I'll be speaking at Holiday Economics programme of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, part of the broader Green Jazdów festival. I'll be speaking on global finance, and also on alternative currencies

August 1st 2014: Camp Bestival: Beat the banks: I'll be speaking as part of the Literary Institute programme, talking about open source finance and taking on the banking system. I'll also be speaking on Bitcoin as part of the teen programme

13th June: Show me the money: The image of finance: Panel discussion: Taking part in a panel discussion at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art to mark the opening of ‘Show Me The Money: The image of finance, 1700 to the present’,

May 29th-June 1st: BUKO-Kongress (Leipzig): I'm heading to Leipzig to take part in a gathering exploring urban struggles, freedom of movement, migrant rights and other crucial issues. Going to be speaking on technologies of de-alienation... or something to that effect

April 29th: Edinburgh University Ethical Investment panel: Took part in a panel discussion regarding ethical investment, divestment from fossil fuels, and the role of university investment in setting a precedent for the broader investment industry. Set up to build ideas for a response to the Responsible Investment Consultation

April 27th: Ecology Building Society AGM: Walking tour of Finance & Power: I led a group of 20 people on a tour of Westminster, exploring links between the financial sector, government and broader society

April 10th: Login Tech Conference Lithuania: Cryptocurrency discussion: On a panel with Spectro Finance and Remigijus Šimašius, the former minister of justice of Lithuania. Discussing potentials and drawback's of blockchain technology

March 31st: The real value of Bitcoin: Speaking on a panel hosted by Coinscrum, reflecting on the disruptive potential of the underlying blockchain technology.